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IPFire open source firewall updates PHP

The IPFire project developers have announced an update, Core Update 47, to version 2.9 of their IPFire open source firewall. IPFire is a Linux server distribution that can be booted from a CD or USB drive, or installed to a computer's hard disk drive.

The maintenance release includes the latest version of the PHP scripting language, PHP 5.3.5, a security update from January that addressed a floating point bug which could be used by a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Other changes include the addition of an option to configure Virtual LAN (VLAN) IDs that are used for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) streaming, a new ssh ecdsa hostkey for encryption algorithms and fixes for the add-on service pid/memory display. An option to backup outgoing firewall group settings has also been added. All users are advised to upgrade.